How do I defend not taking protestant communion as a non-catholic?

[heidi_storage]

I don’t know what the Catholic rules on it are, but could it be said that taking the bread and wine at a Protestant Church is like sipping from a tiny empty cup at a preschool girl’s tea party? In other words you are just playing along with no harm, no foul.

Oh, geez! No, it really, really isn’t, and it’s frankly offensive to trivialize our beliefs in such a way. Look, Protestants take the Lord’s Supper very seriously, though our understanding of it is entirely different than the Catholic/ Orthodox understanding. DON’T PARTAKE if you don’t agree with what it is.

OP: If you really believe that the RCC is the church with the fullness of faith, stop playing at being a Protestant; stop waffling.

 

[Lou2U]

Oh, geez! No, it really, really isn’t, and it’s frankly offensive to trivialize our beliefs in such a way. Look, Protestants take the Lord’s Supper very seriously, though our understanding of it is entirely different than the Catholic/ Orthodox understanding. DON’T PARTAKE if you don’t agree with what it is.

OP: If you really believe that the RCC is the church with the fullness of faith, stop playing at being a Protestant; stop waffling.

Right. It’s disrespectful to those who do believe in the teaching of the OP’s church. It’s a good idea from the OP and if his Catholic spiritual guider agrees with him to abstain, he should do so.

Lou

 

[Church_Militant]

I think perhaps what we need here is some concise Catholic teaching and i know of no better source than Pope St. John Paul the Great’s encyclical Ecclesia de Eucharistia and I especially direct our attention to sections 43-46 which are directly relevant to this issue.

This is one of my very favorite documents and was deeply influential as I was returning to the faith. I highly recommend it as a diligent study that will be a tremendous blessing to you.

 

[Michael_Francis]

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